All, This is all just so much speculation and guessing because certain names "look right." I'd be very careful about taking any of this is a fact. I sure don't want to see it on our NN tree unless there is proof of relationships. Otherwise, we are just as bad as the rest of the stuff floating around out there in cyberspace. That is not our goal. Craig On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:44 PM, DAVID BROWN wrote: > > > The following is of interest as well as it actually connects Vesey to Gosnold & Ball (specifically Roger Ball of Hadleigh). > > 1559 Will of Robert Vesey (Source: Suffolk Manorial Families, Being the County Visitations and Other ..., Volume 1 edited by Joseph James Muskett): > Robert Vesey of Hadley in the countye of Suffolk, clothier, 11 Octr 1559. To the children of William Vesey by his first and second wives, when of age. To the children of Lawrence Vezey, viz, :—Abram, Isaacke, and Laurance when twenty four, and to Rose, Dorathe, Margaret, Anne, Alice and Marye Vesey, when twenty years of age. To John Smith, sonne of William Smith of Hadley: Anthony Gosnold, sonne of Robert Gosnold, late of Ottley: Alice Gosnold my maide: Judith Gosnold daughter of said Robert: Elizabeth Smith, dwelling with me, daughter of John Smith of Elmsett: Roger Ball of Hadleigh my kinsman: Katherine Cole, daughter of Rose Cole. To William Vesey my sonne my lands in Leigham. To Arture Vesey my sonne the howso I dwell in for life; then to Robert Vesey his sonne , then, for lack of sonnes to said Arthur and Robert, to Laurence Vesey* sonne late of Laurence Vesey sonne of me ) and then, failing issue males, to Isaacke Vesey. Lands to Arthur Vesey for > life, then to Robert Vesey his eldest sonne. To the said Arthur Vesey lands in Roydon. To Dorathe Vesey daughter of William Vesey. To Laurence Smith, sonne of John Smith, lands in Roydon. To William Vesey sonne of William Vesey; Ingelbrighte Smithe, sonne of John Smith of Elmsett: Henry Vesey sonne of William Vesey: Robert Smith sonne of John Smith of Elmsett: Edward Smith sonne of John Smith of Elmsett; John Gosnold sonne of Robert Gosnold late of Ottley: William and John Gosnold, also sonnes of the said Robert: John Smith sonne of John Smith of Hadley; and Robert Smith th'elder. sonne of John Smith of Elmsett. Probate 7 May 1561 Juramento Willmi Vesey executoris. Cur. Pncrog. Cant. 16 Loftus. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message